LakePoint project seeks foreign dollars with offer of quick U.S. residency. Advance voting begins for key Nov. 6 ballot. Gas prices fall here, up across Georgia. 80% rain chance today.

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The Buzz of Northwest Georgia. 
-LakePoint seeks major foreign investors looking for a quick way to become U.S. residents: A proposal from EB-5 Ameri-Holdings offers "eligible foreign nationals the opportunity to become conditional permanent U.S. residents via the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program" if they invest at least $500,000 into the massive sports/retail complex. 
-NAIA title game goes primetime Dec. 16.
-International Credit Union week begins.
-Peaks & Valleys: Peak to the fair; valley to the chicken stew.

Georgia gas prices jump by a nickel; almost 30 cents more per gallon vs. a year ago, according to AAA South . . .
. . . but local prices continue to fall: Unleaded was at $3.48 on Sunday at Kroger in East Rome 

Forecast: 0.12 of an inch of rain so far today
-Monday: 80% rain chance, high of 75, low of 42.
-Tuesday: Sunny, high of 72, low of 48. 
-Wednesday: Sunny, high of 76, low of 53.

 

Advance/early voting begins today at the  Floyd County administrative building, second floor courtroom, 12 E. Fourth Ave., 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

-Candidate profiles begin Tuesday on Hometown.

 

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition, WRGA 1470 AM. 7 to 9 a.m. weekdays. Listen live online 

-Please join our guests Monday including:

-Floyd County Sheriff Tim Burkhalter.

-Kim Hatcher of the state park system on LeafWater.

-David Stephenson and Don Foley on Georgia Northwestern Technical College's basketball.